Introduction[]
Arthur walks in front of a sky-blue background.
Arthur: Hi. Today, I want to introduce you to a new friend of mine. Her name is...
A auburn haired, light orange bunny in an olive green shirt, pops up in front of him.
Ladonna Compson: Hey! Ladonna Compson here. Nice to meet you. Arthur looks peeved. Today's show has everything in it - adventures, jokes, alligators, dinosaurs, tigers...
Arthur: Wait a minute, there are no tigers in this show.
Ladonna: Oh, yeah? What do you call this? She holds up a tiger puppet. Roarr!
Arthur: A hand puppet?
Ladonna: Well, okay, you got me there. A white rat runs up her shoulder. But there is the world's smartest, most handsome white rat named General Higgins. See?
The rat climbs to the ground where Pal sniffs him.
Arthur: Come to think of it, there aren't any dinosaurs in this story either.
Ladonna: Are so. Wanna pinky bet?
They hook pinkies.
Arthur: Winner gets to wrap up the show.
Ladonna: You're on! See you at the end of the show.
Arthur: Don't count on it. Ow! How did you get such strong pinkies?
Title Card: Ladonna falls over a root[]
The Compsons’ camper van stands outside their house in Louisiana with a “Move ‘n Go” trailer attached to it. Gussie waves to Ladonna, who stands in front of the house.
Ladonna: Coming! She hugs a tree. Goodbye, Oaksy! You're the best tree in the whole yard. Sorry, I carved an “L” into ya! Goodbye rusty rake! Goodbye, mossy rock! Goodbye, tree that looks like a scarecrow! Goodbye, gopher hole!
The camper’s horn blows. A short light brown bunny with a red cap, looks out of the window.
Bud Compson: I get to sit by the window and so does Rapty and you have to help me practice my harmonica ‘cause Daddy said so.
Ladonna gets in.
Ladonna: (sighs) Hello, sixteen-hour drive.
They drive off.
***
The camper drives along a country road, along a fancy Eastern city street, past a big city waterfront, and along another country road in the dark.
Eventually, the camper reaches wintry Elwood City. It passes the Powers’ ice-cream shop and the Sugar Bowl.
***
Workers from Fallon & Son's Moving Company are unloading furniture in front of the Compson's new house. The camper stops next to the moving truck.
***
Some time later, Arthur and D.W. walk over to the Compsons’ house with a box.
D.W.: They live right down the block and we want them to like us, so you'd better let me do the talking.
They ring the doorbell. Ladonna answers.
D.W.: Hi, I'm D.W., your four-houses-down-the-block neighbor. Pleased to meet you. Do you have a little sister?
Ladonna gestures for them to come in.
Ladonna: I'm Ladonna. Nice to meet you, too. No younger sisters, but there's Bud, he's about your age. Bud, get down here, we've got company!
Arthur: Hi, I'm Arthur. Welcome to the neighborhood.
He hands Ladonna the box.
Ladonna: Thanks. Is it a cake? I love cake. My favorite kind of cake is King cake. It's got cinnamon and icing and a little baby inside. Not a real one, of course, a plastic one.
D.W.: Uh...
Arthur and D.W. look taken aback.
Ladonna: Once, my brother, Gussie, bit into a slice and chipped a molar on it. Cross my heart. But I've never seen King cake outside Louisiana.
Arthur: It's a pie. Rhubarb, I think. My dad made it.
Ladonna: (sniffs) Smells amazing. Hey, Mom! Someone named Arthur and D.W. just brought us a rhubarb pie. What's rhubarb, anyway? A root? A berry? A tuber? I'm sure I'll like it, whatever it is. My daddy says I'm a garbage disposal with legs. I eat everything. Except beets, I can't stand beets. If I even look at a beet, my stomach starts jumping like a toad on a pogo stick. Heh heh. Wanna come in and have some sweet tea? Madison, make some sweet tea! Well, you gonna come in? Or we could go outside. I love exploring in the woods. Are there any woods to explore around here?
Arthur: Huh? Oh, yeah, plenty of them. But we were on our way to my grandma's. Maybe later?
Ladonna: Oh, Okay. Sure. Well, don't be a stranger, four-houses-down neighbors. Thanks for the pie.
She waves as Arthur and D.W. leave.
Ladonna closes the door. Bud stands beside her holding Rapty.
Ladonna: (yelps)
Bud: You talked too much and scared 'em away, didn't you?
Ladonna: What? No, I didn't.
Bud: Did so. I was spying right over there and your mouth didn't stop moving once.
Ladonna: You shouldn't spy. It's against the law.
Bud: Well, it was Rapty's idea, so it's only half my fault. Bad dinosaur! You're going to jail!
Ladonna takes her pet rat out of its cage and puts it on her shoulder.
Ladonna: Anyway, they seem nice. I hope they did like me. We're going to need some new friends here.
Bud: Don't worry about me. Everyone likes me, ‘cause I'm cute, funny and can make good animal noises. But you might want to try and be just a little less... Ladonna-ish. Just until they get used to you.
Ladonna: (sighs)
***
Mr. Haney and Ladonna stand in the door to Mr. Ratburn’s classroom.
Mr. Ratburn: I'd like you to meet your new classmate: Ladonna Compson.
Ladonna looks shy.
Arthur: Hey! Over here. I saved you a seat.
Ladonna smiles.
***
Ladonna, Francine, Arthur and Arthur sit in the cafeteria.
Francine: You have a really cool accent. Where are you from?
Ladonna: Louisiana.
Buster: Ladonna, is that short for something?
Ladonna: Nope.
Francine: Do you play basketball? We could really use someone your height on our team.
Ladonna: I'm not very good.
Buster: Do you like Dark Bunny?
Ladonna: I haven't met him yet. Is he in our class?
Arthur: He's a superhero. On TV.
Ladonna: Oh, we don't have a TV.
Buster: (coughs)
Arthur pats his back.
Ladonna: Well, we did have one once, but we gave it away to the alligator sanctuary.
Francine: Alligator sanctuary?
Ladonna: Yeah, it's where they rescue alligators and other lizards that have been abandoned. My brother Gussie was working there one summer and there was this one 'gator named Penny, and she was kind of grumpy and no one could figure out why. But TV really calmed her down, so my daddy... This is really boring, isn't it?
The others are hanging on her lips.
Arthur+Buster+Francine: No, go on! Go on!
Ladonna: Well, they put the TV right outside Penny's enclosure.
A fantasy shows an alligator and watching TV. The alligator lies in a pond inside the enclosure, while Gussie sits on a stool outside.
Ladonna (narrator): Turned out that she really liked this one soap opera.
Man (on TV): I have something to confess to you. I'm not Sheldon.
Woman (on TV): You're not? Then who are you?
Man (on TV): I'm Shelby, Sheldon's twin. I should have told you sooner, Karen.
Woman (on TV): I'm not Karen. I'm Kara.
Gussie changes to a commercial for Crosswire motors.
Penny: (roars)
Gussie hurriedly changes the channel back.
Woman (on TV): Karen's my undercover name.
Man (on TV): Undercover?
Penny watches TV with four young alligators sitting on her head and back.
Ladonna (narrator): Then Penny had all these alligator babies and they really like the soap, too. But my younger brother, Bud, was upset, because we didn't have a TV and everyone else did. So, he made my daddy take it back.
Madison lies on the couch at home wrapped in a blanket and watches TV.
Ladonna (narrator): But then Madison was home sick one day and there was nothing to watch. So she started watching that soap and she had it on really loud because her ears were stuffy, and when it was over, she discovered that she wasn't alone.
Madison tries to use the remote control and accidentally grabs a young alligator and squeezes it.
Madison: Augh! Aaaaahhh!
She runs out of the house.
The fantasy ends. Brain, George, Muffy, Binky, and Jenna have joined the others.
Ladonna: After that, we gave the TV to the alligator sanctuary for good.
Brain: You had a carnivorous reptile in your house?
Buster: Brain, it was an alligator. Haven't you been listening?
Muffy: (gasps) Did you keep him? You know, alligator oil is a fabulous moisturizer.
The group are the only kids left in the cafeteria. Mr. Ratburn watches them reproachfully and looks at his watch.
Mr. Ratburn: A-hem! I believe history follows lunch. Not story time.
***
The third-graders follow Mr. Ratburn out of the cafeteria.
Francine: I have an older sister, too. Do you guys have to share a room?
Muffy: After school, you and me, the mall, big sale on glitter headbands.
Buster: Don't tell anyone, but I have a coupon for Gregerson's all-you-can-eat buffet. We can have thirds, fourths, they can't stop us!
Ladonna smiles.
***
Ladonna sits in the ice-cream shop surrounded by Binky, Arthur, Muffy, Francine, George, and Buster. Brain serves her a sundae.
Ladonna: But the largest crab I ever caught was as big as a pizza. Cross my heart.
***
Ladonna sits on the jungle gym telling a story, to Binky, Rattles, Molly, and the dog boy.
Ladonna: And he had a hook instead of a hand, but he could do anything with it, even thread a needle.
***
Arthur, Ladonna, Buster, Francine, and Muffy are in the park. Arthur makes a snowball in the park when he gets hit by a snowball from Buster.
Buster: (laughs) Muffy puts snow down the back of his shirt. (shudders)
***
Ladonna, Francine, Buster, and Brain are in the ice-cream shop.
Ladonna: And my momma played in that band until she was twenty-five but got so broke, she had to sell her trumpet. But then the soldier bought it back. And that was my daddy - Captain Rufus Tucker Compson.
***
Ladonna rides in the Crosswire limousine with Muffy.
Ladonna: Woo-hoo!
Muffy: (laughs)
***
D.W. and Bud are in the Compsons’ hallway. D.W. is wearing her winter clothes and is about to leave.
Bud: Roarr!
D.W.: What was that?
Bud: A whale.
D.W.: Really? It sounded like our car just before it died. Listen to this: (crows like a rooster)
Bud: That's the best rooster I've ever heard.
D.W.: Thanks. Keep practicing. See ya!
She leaves.
***
Bud walks into the kitchen where Ladonna is getting a yogurt from the refrigerator.
Bud: She didn't like my whale. She didn't like my pig sound, either. Said it was too oinky. Not like a real pig.
Ladonna: These things take time, Bud. We've only been here a week, you can't expect to have friends overnight.
Bud: Why not? You've got friends already. You're not paying them, are you?
Ladonna sits down at the table and starts eating.
Ladonna: Of course not. They like me because I tell great stories.
Bud: Well, what happens when you run out of stories?
Ladonna: Hehehe! Me?? Run out of stories?? Please, the Atlantic Ocean will dry up before that ever happens.
***
Ladonna tells a story to Buster and Arthur. Buster is hanging from the jungle gym.
Ladonna: But Gussie's face was so red and swollen, he decided to wear a mask to school. That's how he became known as...
Buster: ...the Phantom of the Poison Ivy.
Ladonna: How’d you know that?
Arthur: You already told us that story.
Ladonna: Well, how about this one? Once I heard this mysterious sound coming from somewhere in our walls. First, I thought it was a ghost...
Arthur: But it turned out a barn owl had made a nest in your chimney.
Buster: You told us that one twice. But I love it. Especially when the owl lays an egg in Madison's hat.
Arthur: Haha! Hey, did you see Dark Bunny last night?
Buster: Oh! Wasn't it amazing? I was so surprised by that ending.
Arthur: And who knew Bionic Bunny's real name is Sue?!
In Ladonna’s imagination, a giant hand pulls a plug out of the water in front of the Statue of Liberty. The Hudson River quickly runs dry.
The fantasy ends. Ladonna slides down the jungle gym.
Arthur: And then when that guy turned out to be a mutant. Hey! Where are you going? There's still five minutes of recess left.
Ladonna: Huh? Oh, I just have to get my... my mittens. Yeah, they're in my locker.
She walks off. Arthur and Buster exchange looks.
***
Ladonna lies in bed looking depressed.
In her dream, she walks up to Arthur, Buster, Francine, and Brain in the cafeteria.
Buster: Hey, Ladonna. Got any stories for us today?
Ladonna: Erm, no.
She tries to sit at the table.
Arthur: Actually, it's a little crowded here. Why don't you sit over there?
He points to a stool in the middle of a stormy prairie. A crow caws on a cow’s skull.
The dream ends. Ladonna turns on the light and starts writing on a notepad.
***
Ladonna walks into the cafeteria with a juice carton and a note.
Buster: (laughs)
Ladonna walks over to Arthur, Buster, Francine, and Brain.
Ladonna: Did I ever tell you about the time we had a bear as a pet?
Arthur: No.
Francine: What??
Buster: You have to tell us.
Ladonna: Once my daddy and I were alone on this camping trip around Mount Driskill in Louisiana and we came across this ginormous grizzly bear who was roaring his lungs out like this: Rrroar! And we thought we were goners for sure. But then...
Brain: Wait! There are no grizzly bears in Louisiana. The Ursus arctos horribilis, or grizzly bear, lives out west in places like the Rockies and British Columbia.
Ladonna: Well... I... I... I guess this one just got... lost. Anyway, Madison fed him some, uh, some pizza and...
Buster: I thought you said it was just you and your dad on the trip?
Ladonna: I did? No, no, she was there too.
Francine: Is this story true?
Ladonna: Maybe I fibbed in a few parts, just to make it a little bit more exciting.
Francine: Which parts?
Ladonna: Well, the part about the bear for one.
Buster: What about your other stories? Were they lies, too?
Ladonna: No, they weren't. Cross my heart.
Francine: I don't believe you.
She gets up and leaves, followed by Brain and Buster.
Buster: I bet you don't even have mittens.
Ladonna: Arthur, I just lied this one time. You believe me, don't you?
Arthur: I don't know what to think any more.
He walks away, leaving Ladonna alone.
Part 2[]
The next day, it snows outside. Ladonna sits alone in the cafeteria. The other kids sit at tables at the other side of the room.
Arthur: I think we should give her a second chance.
Muffy: Why, so she can lie to us again like she did yesterday?
Arthur: It was just one lie.
Francine: You don't know that. She might have been lying all along.
Muffy: I opened my heart to that girl. I taught her how to accessorize.
They look over at Ladonna.
Arthur: It just seems like we're being kind of harsh. I'm gonna go sit with her.
He gets up.
Buster: Me, too. Who hasn't told one or two lies before?
He gives Muffy a look and follows Arthur.
Francine: Huh! Or in your case one or two hundred.
Buster: See, I just lied again, it can't be helped.
Ladonna puts ketchup on her meat loaf looking depressed. Arthur and Buster come to her table.
Arthur: Anyone sitting here?
Ladonna: Huh? No, sit down. Want my fruit salad? I got two of them because I thought there were cherries in them, but then they weren't cherries, they were just grapes, and I can't eat grapes ever since General Higgins almost choked on one. See, Bud and I were having this picnic...
Arthur: It's okay, you don't have to give us your fruit salad. Also, you don't have to tell us any stories.
Buster: Not that they aren't great stories.
Arthur: But we like you a lot even without them. Just be yourself.
Ladonna: Okay, thanks, guys. It was getting pretty lonely over here.
Buster: No problem. On second thought, I think I will have that fruit salad.
He takes one, then takes the other as well.
***
D.W., Emily, Bud and three stuffed animals have a tea party in D.W.’s room.
D.W.: And then the Princess said she wished her prince was still a toad.
Emily: Do you take sugar in your tea, Mr. Compson?
Bud upends his cup.
Bud: I would, but I don't have any tea.
D.W.: It's pretend.
Bud: Can I pretend it's tomato soup instead?
D.W.+Emily: (sigh)
Bud: Then no sugar please, but I will take a bigger spoon and crackers if you have them.
D.W.: Bud! We're playing tea, not lunch!
Bud: Well, why can't we play lunch?
D.W.: Because I have a toy tea set! That's what you do with it! You put pretend tea in the toy teapot!
Bud: You could put anything in that pot. He takes the pot and pretends to put something in it. See? I just put mac and cheese in it.
Emily: Oh, I'll have some.
She holds out her plate.
D.W.: No! We're not playing lunch! This is my teapot and I don't want mac and cheese in it!
She “empties” it.
***
Bud sits in front of his house with Rapty.
Bud: That D.W. doesn't like me.
In Bud’s imagination, Rapty turns in to a live dinosaur.
Rapty: Oh, Bud, don't say that. Everyone likes you. You're so talented.
Bud: Not to her. She didn't like my animal sounds or my magic tricks and I don't play tea right.
Rapty: There must be something out there that will impress her. (gasps) Have you tried clapping?
Bud claps.
Bud: Clapping's not impressive. Anyone can do that.
Rapty: (strains) Being a carnivorous dinosaur with tiny arms, he cannot get his paws together. I can't.
Bud: I could tell her jokes. I'm great at telling jokes. What's pink and fluffy?
Rapty: What?
Bud: Pink fluff.
Rapty sneezes a small flame.
Rapty: Haha, hohoho, pink fluff! Oh, Bud, that's just... that's... I don't get it.
Bud gives him a stern look. Rapty looks apologetically, then turns in to a stuffed toy again, because Madison arrives with a shopping bag. Bud picks up Rapty and follows her.
***
Later, Ladonna puts on her winter clothes in the hallway.
Ladonna: I'm going exploring! Anyone wanna come?
Gussie: Can't!
Bud: I'm practicing my jokes!
Ladonna is about to open the door.
Mrs. Compson: Ladonna, take your hat.
She hands Ladonna a knitted hat.
Ladonna: But it's itchy. Not to mention ugly.
Mrs. Compson: Young lady, your aunt Bo bought you this hat so you would not get sick, because she loves you very much. And it is not ugly, it is bold.
Ladonna: Okay, okay, I'm wearing the hat.
She puts it on.
Ladonna goes out and takes the three steps with a jump. Her mom looks after her.
***
Ladonna passes the treehouse and scratches her head.
Ladonna: Ugh! No wonder aunt Bo's going bald.
Ladonna hears a bird call and looks up. A bald eagle flies by. Ladonna reaches for her cell phone, but her hat slips over her eyes. She throws the hat down and takes out her phone, but the eagle is gone.
Ladonna: Oh, missed it! She tries to pick up the hat. Huh? Where did my...?
The hat is gone, but there is a raccoon track. A raccoon has the hat in its mouth.
Ladonna: Hey! That's mine! She chases the raccoon and falls over a tree root. Whoaah! Oof. Thief! Come back with my hat!
The raccoon disappears with the hat. Ladonna notices something shiny in the snow. She uncovers a gold pocket watch.
Ladonna: Whoa. She picks it up and opens it. “Property of Art Radley.”
***
At home, Ladonna takes out the Elwood City Phone Directory. General Higgins sits on her shoulder.
***
Later, she presents the watch to a richly dressed lady at her home.
Mrs. Radley: My husband's watch. Oh, thank you. Here's a reward.
She reaches into her handbag. Ladonna looks expectantly.
***
Shortly afterwards, Ladonna walks through town.
Ladonna: Four measly quarters?! For a watch that was lost for seven years??
She passes a vending machine. She puts in a quarter, hits the “juice” button, and lots of quarters fall out.
***
Ladonna walks down the street with the quarters jingling in her pockets. In the window of Care to Ware, she sees a hat just like her own.
Ladonna: Huh? I don't believe it.
She goes inside.
***
Ladonna is seen upside down from the viewpoint of Arthur, who is hanging from the jungle gym. Francine and Buster are also there.
Ladonna: So, even though I didn't like that kind of hat ‘cause it was itchy and “bold”, as my momma would say, I had to buy it. And guess what. I had the exact right amount of change in my pocket. The image turns right side up. Isn't that amazing?
Francine: It's amazing all right. I'd even call it “unbelievable”.
Ladonna: But...
Muffy comes down the slide.
Muffy: Ladonna, that's the same hat you were wearing last week. Believe me, I'd never forget it.
Ladonna: No, it isn't. It just looks the same. My other hat had a moth hole as big as a quarter right here.
Francine addresses Arthur.
Francine: You talked us into giving her a second chance and we did. Are you satisfied now? Come on.
She leaves with Muffy.
Ladonna: You believe me, right, Buster?
Buster: Sorry. If you had said an alien stole your hat I might have, but a raccoon? Raccoons don't need hats, they have fur.
He leaves. Arthur comes off the jungle gym.
Arthur: I told you, you didn't have to make up these stories.
He walks away.
Ladonna: (sighs) I didn't make it up! It's true, I swear! Look, I'll prove it to you! Meet me after school!
***
D.W. rolls a head for a snowman outside the Read house. Bud stands nearby.
Bud: What do you get when you cross a rhino and a doggie? A very frightened mail carrier.
D.W.: (sighs)
Bud: Come on, that was funny. My Momma laughed so hard she got the hiccups.
D.W.: Can you just help me build this snowman, please? Bud puts Rapty down and helps D.W. to lift the head on the snowman’s body. Okay, where's the carrot?
Bud: I ate it.
D.W.: What?! That was his nose!
Bud: It didn't look like a nose. It looked like a carrot.
D.W.: Well what are we going to use now?
Bud looks around, then he picks up a small rock and sticks it in the snowman’s face.
D.W.: That looks terrible!
Bud: Don't make fun of his nose!
D.W.: (sighs)
Bud pats the snowman.
Bud: She didn't mean it.
A snowball knocks off the snowman’s head.
D.W.: (gasps)
The Tibbles have arrived with more snowballs.
Timmy+Tommy: (laugh)
They high-five.
Bud: Hey!
He walks over to the Tibbles.
D.W.: Bud! No, wait! You don't understand! Those are Tibbles!
Bud: You put his head back on right now!
The Tibbles exchange looks. Then Tommy stands up and tosses a snowball to himself menacingly.
Tommy: Oh, yeah? Who's going to make me?
D.W.: I will! By giving you the Bud Compson Power Stare!
Tommy: Did you hear that, Tommy? He's going to stare at us.
Timmy: Ooh, I'm so afraid.
Timmy+Tommy: (laugh)
Bud squeezes his eyes shut for a moment, then gives the Tibbles a wide-eyed stare. They shut up.
Tommy: That is kind of strange looking.
Timmy: Doesn't he have to blink? Blink! Blink already!
Tommy: I feel... cold.
Tommy: Let's get out of here. Ahh...
They run away.
Bud smiles at D.W.
D.W.: How did you do that?
Bud: I've been having staring contests with my brothers and sisters since I was two. I never lose.
He picks up the snowman’s head and puts it back on the body.
D.W.: Bud Compson, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
She puts in the rock nose. The kids smile at each other.
***
That afternoon, Ladonna and Arthur ring the Radleys’ doorbell.
Ladonna: Aw, why isn't she home?
Arthur: Maybe she's getting her hair dyed?
Ladonna: We'll go to that thrift store. I bet they have some more hats.
Arthur: (sighs)
They go.
***
A while later, Ladonna and Arthur come out of Care to Ware.
Ladonna: That store clerk didn't even remember me.
Arthur: So? He didn't remember me either and I've been in that store lots of times.
Ladonna: There's still one more place we can go.
Arthur: Ladonna, you really don't have to.
Ladonna: Come on, we have to get there before it gets dark!
She runs off.
Arthur: Oh.
He follows.
***
Ladonna and Arthur reach the park.
Ladonna: I think I fell around here. I think. And the raccoon was right over there. Or maybe it was over there. Ah. It all looks the same now. She hears a bird. The eagle! A gull flies by. Ladonna kneels in the snow. (sighs) I guess I won't be able to prove I was telling the truth.
Arthur: You don't have to. I believe you. Why would do go to all this trouble if you were lying?
Ladonna: You know, my Aunt Bo has blue hair too and the longest fingernails of anyone I ever met. They start going home. She says she uses them to play the harp, but I've never seen a harp...
Arthur: Ladonna! Look!
A raccoon stands on a snowdrift wearing Ladonna’s old hat. Ladonna looks delighted.
***
The next day, Ladonna sits in the cafeteria with Arthur, Buster, Francine, and Muffy. She is wearing the new hat.
Ladonna: The raccoon was wearing the hat!
The others are hanging on her lips.
Arthur: And when he saw us, he ran like the wind.
Ladonna: But luckily the hat fell off. See? She shows the old hat. Here's the moth hole I was telling y’all about. Here. For you. She hands the hat to Francine. Don't worry. I washed all the raccoony smell out of it.
Francine: Uh-Thanks. Sorry I didn't believe you. Actually, I kind of like it.
Muffy: You would! Thank you so much for not giving it to me. You really are a good friend.
***
Ladonna pushes the screen to the side, revealing the sky-blue background from the introduction.
Ladonna: See? Everything I said was gonna be in that story was in it. There was adventure, jokes, alligators, dinosaurs...
Arthur steps out from behind her.
Arthur: Okay, but it was just a toy dinosaur.
Ladonna: Details, details. I still get to wrap up the show.
Arthur: Not if I do it first.
He runs off and she chases him.
Ladonna: Hey!
Ladonna disappears to the right and reappears from the left. While she looks around for Arthur, he pops up from the bottom.
Arthur: Show's over! Goodbye, everybody!
The screen goes black for a moment, then blue again.
Ladonna: Did I ever tell you about the time my uncle Whitney made a jet-pack out of a can of pop?
Arthur: Ladonna!
Ladonna: All right, all right, I'm coming. The end.